#### 8.1.2 Basing subformat properties on other subformats

All subformats can have a based property, which includes the properties of a referenced subformat of the same type. Basing properties works the same way for subformats as for formats; see §7.4.3 Basing format properties on other formats.

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Parent Topic: 8.1 Managing format components

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8.1.1 Understanding where to define subformats

8.1.3 Assigning additional names to subformats

8.1.4 Understanding subformat name lookups

8.1.5 Including typographic tags and character formats